Iran’s deeper crises are rooted in the regime’s governance failures, consistently prioritizing ideological expansion and regional influence over the welfare of its population.
Trump said Iran is not going to have a nuclear weapon and that Russian President Vladimir Putin had called him and offered to help with Iran.
Trump said that both countries had violated the ceasefire agreement and that additional Israeli strikes in Iran would be a "serious violation" of the ceasefire he had brokered.
Striving for a regime change before the war comes to an end should remain off the agenda.
For decades, Israel was wary of regime change in Syria and other neighboring countries, preferring a menacing stability to whatever might replace it.
Israeli security officials have said that these phone calls were part of a “broad covert action campaign” against Iran, in addition to the military attacks on Iran’s nuclear sites.
The IDF, by June 13, had already killed nine out of 13 primary Iranian military and intelligence chiefs.
The only major targets or uses of force that Israel seems to be refraining from in Iran, so far, are assassinating Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and sending in ground troops.
What Iranians need now is a government that invests in their welfare, respects human rights, and allows free expression, a true national renaissance, not a hasty partition.
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